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Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.

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[–] Skies5394@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

That’s not how this works at all.

There are plenty of ways to deal with this, and issue a death penalty to the corporation while not punishing the workers:

  • Forced turnover of executives and board members (with jail time and high % fines), corporate watchdog for x amount of years

  • Dissolve the mega-corp into smaller corporations, and/or force all subsidiaries into a planned disengagement from parent company

  • Bail-out in the form of state ownership by government buying majority stake

In any of the above, or even in a complete mega-corp dissolution the demand doesn’t disappear. If you want to have the argument that these “oh so wonderful stewards of business” are the reason people have jobs in the first place, you can’t ignore that demand is the reason those very same executives have jobs too.

If they tear it down, someone will build something else to replace it.